Synopsis
Within a traditional Chinese family, the parents divorce makes the three members take different directions. The father remarries with his first love and the mother marries her boss. Born in the eighties, Bing, their child, does not manage to understand this family crisis and the embarrassment which it engenders. To discover the reasons for this failure of marriage, he decides to embark on a journey which will lead him on the tracks of his father's past.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Solferino Images
- Foreign production company : Sichuan Radio & Television
- Film exports/foreign sales : Écrans des Mondes (ICTV)
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Michel Noll
- Screenwriter : Chao Gan
- Editor : Axelle Schatz
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Lafuma
- Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
- Production Manager : Éric Lambert
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Special Effects : Xiao Li, Mengzhou Zhang
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
- Narrator : Damien Mongin
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : History, Education
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France, China
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
- Production year : 2008
- Runtime : 50 min 48 seconds
- Visa number : 122.322
- Visa issue date : 15/01/2008
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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